| JACKFROST | Winter personified as knave, female or twisted saint (4,5) |
| TIEDYEING | In textiles, a method of patterning or "bandhani" in which cloth is bound, knotted or twisted so as to resist the indigo or other colouring used (3-6) |
| BRITANNIA | Metal personified as helmeted female warrior (9) |
| RINGTAILS | Female or young male hen harriers (9) |
| INFORMANT | Hot female or chap with time for dope supplier (9) |
| MOIRA | Greek “fate”, personified as Clotho, Lachesis or Atropos |
| PURL | Hot spiced ale; an eddy or ripple; a babbling sound of a shallow brook; a knitting stitch; or, twisted gold or silver wire thread for embroidery (4) |
| PLAITS | Braids of hair/straw; or, twisted loaves of bread such as challahs (6) |
| SUNGOD | The sun personified as a deity (3,3) |
| IRAE | Angry passions, rages, personified as the Demon of Wrath: furores |
| GRIMREAPER | Death personified as an old man with a scythe (4,6) |
| URANUS | Sky personified as the god (6) |
| HUMPTY | ___ Dumpty, fictional character in a nursery rhyme personified as an egg (6) |
| SOL | The sun, personified as a god |
| EARTHMOTHER | World personified as a goddess (5,6) |
| GAIA | Earth personified as a goddess (4) |
| HELIOS | The sun personified as a god, father of Phaethon (6) |
| HEN | Fowl female ... or foul female |
| GENDER | Class such as female or male |
| OTHER | Further letters after one or two from female or male relative |
